[NTLUG:Discuss] visio conversion

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:02 -0500, Fred James wrote:
> It would seem from searching that there isn't anything available for 
> Linux that can convert Visio files to something viewable on Linux, but I 
> thought I might ask just in case I missed something - anything?

If you save them as VDX files there is an XSLT script that can convert
them to SVG.  Not great, but works for many cases.

The better solution that I've seen is to print them to PDF using
something like PDF Creator[2] and then opening them in a program like
Inkscape[3].

		--Ted

[1] http://vdxtosvg.sf.net
[2] http://pdfcreator.sf.net
[3] http://inkscape.org